Jack Nicholson Quotes
If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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If you're going on a plane journey, you're more likely to take one of my stories than 'Finnegan's Wake.'
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The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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You either get better, or you don't progress.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
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Working for a magazine, you have a boss; you are not free.
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Even if you throw your hair up in a quick topknot or ponytail, you can add instant polish by wearing a headband or bejeweled barrette.
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The market town of Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, was a popular 19th - century English spa. Its mineral springs were supposed to be good for you. This was before the invention of bran. In the 20th century, Cheltenham grew into an active municipality.
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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
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The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.
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You don't have to aim to be the best of everything, thinking that one day you're going to be the top of the world; I don't think it exists.
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If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!
